Booting Fedora-12 from hard disk, again, again
Amadeus W.M.
amadeus84 at verizon.net
Mon Dec 21 02:38:44 UTC 2009
On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:20:42 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm taking the liberty of re-posting this query, as there seemed some
> problems with the previous posting, hopefully now resolved:
>
> Has anyone actually succeeded in booting Fedora-12 from the DVD ISO file
> on the hard disk, by adding a stanza to grub.conf ?
>
> I carried out the following commands: -----------------------------
> [tim at alfred ~]$ sudo mkdir /mnt/Fedora [tim at alfred ~]$ sudo mount -o
> loop Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso /mnt/Fedora/ [tim at alfred ~]$ ls
> /mnt/Fedora/isolinux/ boot.cat boot.msg grub.conf initrd.img
> isolinux.bin isolinux.cfg splash.jpg TRANS.TBL vesamenu.c32 vmlinuz
> [tim at alfred ~]$ ls /mnt/Fedora/images/ efiboot.img efidisk.img
> install.img pxeboot README TRANS.TBL [tim at alfred ~]$ mkdir images
> [tim at alfred ~]$ cp -a /mnt/Fedora/images/install.img images/ [tim at alfred
> ~]$ sudo mkdir /boot/Fedora-12 [tim at alfred ~]$ sudo cp -a
> /mnt/Fedora/isolinux/* /boot/Fedora-12/ -----------------------------
>
> This is the entry I have added to /etc/grub.conf :
> -----------------------------
> title Upgrade to Fedora-12
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /Fedora-12/vmlinuz ro
> initrd /Fedora-12/initrd.img
> -----------------------------
>
> Now when I boot into this, all goes well until I try to install from
> Fedora-12*.iso when I the error "Device /dev/sda6 does not appear to
> contain an installation image".
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
> --
> Timothy Murphy
> e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
> tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
One can only guess, but...
you put the images directory and Fedora12.iso in /home/tim ?
and /dev/sda6 is /home ?
Then when you boot you should specify both the drive and the path to the
images directory. Don't remember if you must specify /tim or just tim.
The point is you need to specify the path to the images directory, not
just the drive.
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